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A. WILLIS;

FIRE ORAOKER HOLDER. No. 385,082. Patented June 26, 1888.

, AMBROSE \VlLLIS, OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF THEODORE D. ROBINSON, OF SAME PLACE.

FIRE CRACKER HOLDER.

:oPECIPIOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,032, dated June 26, 1888.

Application filed April 19, 1888, Serial No. 271,59. (No model.)

objectsof Inyimprovement are to furnish a simple and inexpensive holder in which a fire- 5 crackeneambeeasily inserted and itsiuscunfi crr'ingly directed-to the touch-liole ahd in which the r'e coiloi' the gases aga'inst the conical rear of said holder'will expel the shell of,

the cracker. I attainthese objectsby the construction illustrated in I the accompanying drawings, in which i Figure 1 isalongitudinal section ot'a' crackerholder constructed in accordancenvith my invention. T-FigzlZ .is a longitudinal-section ol" 5- the sameapplicd to a pistol-frame; Fig.- 3 represents a longitudinal section of the-same in theform ofa'cannou. Figs 4.' 5, and 6cm" body my invention applied respectively to the.

representationofa m'onkey, a man smo'kinga cigarette, and a piglor other 'afiimal.

. In said drawings, represents. thelfire' cracker holder in the form ofa tube having a.

substantiallycylindrical bore, a, -of slightly larger diameter than a tire c'rack er,'and a con- 5 ical hollow breech, L in continuation of the axis of the bore a, and at thc'rear end of said breech is the touch-hole a.", slightly larger than the diameter ofthe fuseb of a fire-cracker and adaptcdftc be substantiallyclosed thereby.

presence of two witnesses.

The parts a (6" a beingiu astraight lineon the axis of the holder permits the insertion of a piece of wire through the tduch-hole a" to push the cracker B out in case its fuse b should become burned but fail-t0 expel the shell. As

the rear. end of the cylindrical borea to arrest the end of the fuse, it will be .unerringly rected to and through the touch-hole, and when there is no. shoulderor internal projection at 5 ignited the hot-gases will impinge against the conical hincrsui'facc-of the breech andproject the cracker'shcll from the muzzleof the holder for some distance, but not with sufiicient force to harm anyone, as a small portion of the gases will escape through the touch-hole. InFig. 2 the holder is applied to a pistoh frame that is providcd 'with an upwardly-ex.-

tending'projection or sight, 0, t'odeflect upward-1y the'gases escaping from the-rear of the conical breech.

p In Fig. 4 the crack er-hol'dcr is formed within a body representing a monkey that is provided with a remorablc-hat that canbe blown away "by the expelled shell.-

In Fig. 5 the holder is within a body representing a-nmnhtnd the fuse of the cracker may be supposed to represent a. cigarette, which; when lighted, will cause the cracker toexplode and cause .the figure to how a number of times;

but the figures represented aresi'mplyto show a few'o fth'e forms to which the' holder can be applied. It can also l e-inserted i n'bodies -repre-;'

.se'ntihg f rnits, floweraand vegetables, andhe made of wood or of metal, orofoth'er materials.

Havingino'w fully described my invention, I

claimprovidedwitha cylindrical-perforation th'erein,a.c'onical breech perforation at one end, and

be closed by the fnse of a fire-cracker, 'substantially as and for the purpose described,

In tcstimouywhereofl affix m-ysignature in AMBROSEWl-LLIS. \Vit n csses:

JAMES FARRELL, THEODORE D. ROBINSON.

-A firecracker holder consisting of a body a touch-hole axially in the rear of said perforation; the sizeof said hole being'such as to. 

